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165. The Perfect Crime

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The Greatest Number of Pedestrians Killed a Year

Charlie Zagir: In the late 1920s, almost 40% of all traffic-related deaths involved a pedestrian being killed. That was pretty much at that level until about the mid-1940s, when it actually got a little above 40%. Over the next few decades, until now we're looking at about 13 to 14%, he says. "You could have won a bar bet from me on that so much"

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